I've enjoyed music as long as I remember. In my teens I liked Elton John and Rod Stewart and the more fashionable David Bowie thanks to my brother Peter. A little later in 1977 the punk thing exploded, and its…
I've been playing competitive Scrabble for almost 25 years now, and I often meet people who say "I'm really good at Scrabble". I ask them one simple question "Do you know all your twos?" And invariably I get a glazed…
I love food, but for a long time I've been harbouring the thought that preparing meals is all too much bother! What with first finding a recipe, then sourcing the ingredients and finally prepping and cooking the meal which often…
There's a saying "You're never too old to have a happy childhood", and maybe it was a combination of hearing this, and my partner Claire introducing me to her vast cuddly toy collection from childhood that prompted me recently to…